Onion marketplaces: the working list, sorted plainly

A blank status is not a judgement. It means torindex does not run a fresh probe against that market, so torindex will not claim to know whether it is up. For live up and down data, a dedicated status board is planned as a separate service.

Three things put an entry in this torindex branch. The platform hosts more than one vendor. It handles payment or escrow between buyer and seller. And it presents a catalogue rather than a single storefront. A single-vendor shop goes under services instead. A discussion board with no catalogue goes under forums. Search tools that only index other sites sit under search engines.

• Multiple independent vendors on one platform.
• Escrow or built-in payment handling.
• A browsable catalogue, not a single shop.

Known addresses in this category

Each marketplace above with a tick in the "on file" column has at least one address torindex has verified directly, viewable on its own record page. A row without a tick is listed for reference — the market exists and is discussed elsewhere — but torindex has not independently confirmed an address for it, and that gap is shown honestly rather than papered over with a guessed status.

How a marketplace earns a tick

An address moves from unconfirmed to "on file" the same way for every entry in this torindex category: it resolves over Tor, it serves the expected marketplace rather than a parking page or unrelated content, and the full string gets diffed against any previously confirmed copy before publication.

Status history for this category

Within torindex, marketplace entries change independently, not as a batch — a market retiring moves to seized & defunct, a new mirror gets added to that market's own record, and a status re-check updates just the one row it applies to. The table above reflects the current state at time of each entry's last individual review.

Pick the address from a torindex record you trust, never from a snippet. Marketplaces rotate mirrors often, so one slow address does not mean the market is gone. If every listed mirror fails for days, assume trouble and wait for news rather than chasing a fresh link on a forum, which is exactly where fake addresses spread.

A torindex marketplace record confirms an address, not the machine and browser you use to reach it. The reachability check described on the methodology page says nothing about how well your own session is isolated from the rest of your system, and that gap is worth closing before you connect to any onion market, verified here or not.

A hardened operating system, not just a hardened browser

Tor Browser's security slider protects the browser, but the operating system underneath it is a separate attack surface. Whonix routes all traffic from an isolated workstation through a dedicated Tor gateway, so a compromise in one virtual machine cannot leak your real IP address even if the browser itself is exploited. Tails takes a different but related approach: an amnesic operating system that boots from removable media and leaves no trace on the host machine after shutdown. Neither project is affiliated with torindex; both are named here because they solve a problem a directory entry alone cannot.

Why this matters more for a marketplace than for a static page

An onion market involves an account, sometimes a wallet, sometimes a PGP key — each one a piece of identifying material that a compromised session can leak in ways a simple page visit cannot. torindex's own verification stops at "does this address resolve and match the project"; the operational security of the session you use to actually transact is entirely on the reader, and Whonix or Tails are the two most commonly recommended starting points for closing that gap responsibly.

Marketplaces attract a specific kind of impersonation risk that other torindex categories see less of, because a marketplace is where money actually moves. The patterns below are the ones this category page is built to help a reader avoid, independent of any single market's status.

A "new official mirror" announced somewhere other than the market's own channel

Legitimate mirror rotation is announced through a marketplace's existing, previously verified channel — its own site, its own PGP-signed post, its own established forum account. A mirror link posted only in a third-party forum thread, a Reddit-style comment, or an unsolicited direct message carries none of that continuity and should be treated as unverified until it can be checked against the marketplace's own source, the same standard applied to every torindex entry in this branch.

A marketplace with no PGP key, ever

An established marketplace with real trading volume typically maintains some form of cryptographic identity, even an informal one, because vendors and buyers both need a way to confirm they are dealing with the real operators rather than an imitator. A marketplace candidate with zero verifiable identity across its whole public presence is a weaker candidate for this category, and torindex's Checking status for such an entry reflects that thinner evidentiary base honestly rather than upgrading it prematurely.

Countdown timers and "limited slots" language

This is not a torindex verification signal directly — it does not change an address's reachability — but it is a pattern worth naming here because it appears disproportionately on marketplace clone pages designed to pressure a visitor into skipping the verification steps described on the methodology page. A genuine marketplace record on torindex has no urgency mechanism built into it at all; the record is the same whether you read it in ten seconds or ten minutes.

Why this category page does not rank marketplaces against each other

A reader might reasonably expect a marketplaces category to rank entries by size, reputation, or trustworthiness. torindex deliberately does not do this. Ranking marketplaces would require judgments — about vendor quality, dispute resolution, or relative safety — that fall well outside what a reachability-and-verification pipeline can honestly claim to measure. The order entries appear in above reflects table sorting, not a torindex opinion about which marketplace is "better."

torindex is built to be one input among several, never the only one, and this marketplace branch is where that design choice matters most because real funds are involved. torindex recommends treating every entry here the same way: as a starting point that still needs a second, independent check before you rely on it.

What torindex asks a reader to verify beyond the torindex record itself

Where a marketplace publishes its own PGP-signed canon of addresses, torindex encourages checking that canon directly rather than stopping at the torindex record alone. torindex's own reachability-and-diff check is deliberately narrow — it confirms an address resolves and serves the right project, nothing about the project's operational history. A reader who wants a fuller picture should combine what torindex shows here with the market's own published channel, and treat any conflict between the two as a reason for caution rather than a tie to be broken in torindex's favor by default.

Why torindex does not claim to be the only record worth checking

Plenty of directories present themselves as the single authoritative source, which is precisely the posture torindex avoids. torindex publishes exactly what its own pipeline confirmed, on the date shown, and nothing more — a torindex marketplace entry is evidence, not a verdict. Reading this torindex branch alongside a market's own signed materials, rather than instead of them, is the intended way to use every record on this page.